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wimp
noun
a weak and timid person US, 1911
A thorough treatment of the word may be found in “Wimp”, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, Volume VIII, p. 43–56, 1984–1985. The word played a major role in the US presidential election of 1988, in which President George H.W. Bush had to overcome a widely held perception that he was “a wimp”.- — American Speech, p. 119, May 1964: “Problems in the study of campus slang”
- — American Speech, p. 195, October 1965: “Notes on campus vocabulary, 1964”
- — Current Slang, p. 8, Winter 1966
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 222, 1968
- Alright, you chickenshit wimps! You pansies! — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 17, 1971
- — Maledicta, pp. 43–56, 1984–1985: “Wimp”
- But if George Bush is a doomed wimp and Jack Kemp is a giddy windbag, Rev. Pat looks pretty good right now. — Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 127, 9 June 1986
- All my life I’ve been a bit of a wimp, really[.] — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 27, 2001
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